Word: thawing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Joseph Stalin died the world knew that an era had ended. And because it was the end of a long winter, though not necessarily the coming of spring, the change which ensued in the relations between nations was sometimes called the thaw. For a while the only visible manifestation of the thaw was a general fading, ungluing, cracking of power positions on both sides of the Iron Curtain. In the Soviet empire the melting process has produced popular uprising and high-level confusion as to how the empire should be managed (see below). In the free world...
...after the thaw comes new growth. Last week, dimly and hesitantly, there appeared in one part of the world signs that a new power arrangement is taking shape. The place: Western Europe. The shape: European union...
When the cold war slid farther below freezing in 1952, two victims of frostbite were Amerika, a Russian-language monthly magazine distributed in the Soviet Union by the U.S.. and U.S.S.R. Information Bulletin, its English-language counterpart in the U.S. Last week, with the cold war's thaw, both magazines were starting up again...
...changed world scene. Workers protesting Communist rule in Poznan, Poland locked arms and marched into the fire of Communist police and militiamen, shouting "We want bread!" and "We want freedom!" (see FOREIGN NEWS). The Poznan revolt clearly heralded more trouble to come for the Communists as their Big Thaw got out of hand. Criticism was pouring into the Kremlin from Communist parties in Britain, Italy, Canada, East Germany, France, the U.S., Belgium; the Kremlin nonetheless kept up the momentum of its demolition of Stalin and, with that, of the iconography of the Communist way of life for the past...
Only real source of friction in the house : Eero's unwillingness to play handyman. Says Aline: "It's the shoemaker's-children-have-no-shoes situation. The basement leaked for months without his taking any interest in it. Then, happily, one day during a strenuous spring thaw, it flooded to a depth of six inches. That was sufficient crisis to engage him. He sprang into action and within an hour a sump pump was making the house throb like an ocean liner...